BGP list of phishing sites?

Mon Jun 28 18:20:11 UTC 2004

Simon Lockhart wrote:

> It's wholy unfair to the innocent parties affected by the blacklisting.
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>i.e. the collateral damage.
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You´ll get burned anyway in a bad neighborhood because of the bandwidth 
consumed by the crap.

>Say a phising site is "hosted" by geocities. Should geocities IP addresses
>be added to the blacklist?
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>What if it made it onto an akamaized service? Should all of akamai be 
>blacklisted?
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As with any list, whitelisting space that takes care of complaints is 
always an option.

>LINX produced a paper recently on why BGP poisoning is exactly the wrong 
>answer to removing access to undesirable web content (i.e. phising sites).
>I've asked if it can be made public.
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Looking forward to it.

Pete